"All I Could Do"

Two Bright Lakes / Warner Bros.

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Melbourne's Oscar Key Sung has been experimenting with electronic production for years, putting out minimalist R&B as Oscar + Martin, glitched-out hip hop with Brothers Hand Mirror, and even the occasional solo beat tape. With "All I Could Do", the follow-up to July's "It's Coming", Oscar Key Sung reveals that his solo project might be his most refined work yet. The song has Key Sung pleading for a straight shot at bliss while simultaneously doubting his ability to do anything about it. Key Sung kicks a skipping beat alongside pitched-down samples, steel drum progressions and his own smoky crooning, but "All I Could Do" angles for the club, not the bedroom. Key Sung wants to make all the sad pretty things dance, exorcising that all-too-familiar frustration by sweating it out on the floor instead of balling it up under the blankets, and "All I Could Do" makes that self-excoriation sound convincingly therapeutic.